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04/18/2020

The Most Expensive Toilet
Here’s a fun plumbing fact! You might think that the world’s most expensive toilet is covered in gold (like the Hang Fung toilet), or comes from Japan (where toilets can warm your bum and talk to you), but you would be wrong.
The most expensive toilet in the world lives on the International Space Station. Costing a cool $19 million, this toilet not only straps astronauts in place, it sucks waste away into a tank where it is then converted into drinking water.

04/18/2020

#3: Origin of the Word “Plumber”
The word plumber can be traced back to the Romans. The word comes from the Latin term “plumbum” which means lead. Romans who worked with lead were called “Plumbarius”, which has shortened over time to the word we use today.

01/10/2019

11/27/2018

Fact: Lightning can (and has!) traveled through plumbing because metal piping makes for excellent conductors. The same goes for water because it is laden with impurities that help conduct electrical current. Needless to say, it's probably best to skip that shower or bath during a major storm.

09/28/2018

Joke of the day...Somebody broke into the police station and stole the only toilet in the building. Right now the cops are anxious to apprehend the perpetrator but they have nothing to go on.

09/17/2018

One in four Americans with children escape to the bathroom to unwind.

08/31/2018

When zinc is alloyed with copper, brass is made. And when tin is alloyed with copper, bronze is made. Both brass and bronze are stronger than pure copper and do not corrode in air or water except for a small amount of tarnishing.

08/24/2018

Fun fact: Pipes haven't always been made of metal. In the 1800s, both Boston and Montreal used wooden pipes; they were logs that were hollowed out and tapered at the ends.

08/02/2018

Although a conventional tank style water heater can last from 10 to 15 years, the U.S. Department of Energy recommends closely monitoring a water heater that is seven years old or older. Although failures at this stage are uncommon, they do occur, especially if the water heater hasn't been well maintained.